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Andrei Maiboroda, Writer and Entrepreneur: If You Work a Lot, You Are Destined to Succeed
…needed. Since then, I always find new inspirations in India. Did working with students also help you become aware of your purpose? Yes. It helped me acknowledge that sharing knowledge with other people is part of my personal mission, even though I doubted it. I started my career with teaching: I taught literature at a school with an English focus. Then I be…
18.12.2018
WorldSkills Winner on His Competition Experience
On the Origin of Memes: Meme Scientist Explains Post-Irony and Future of Internet Culture
…too: a Lentach-made meme about a “Beautiful story with a sad ending” on the occasion of the Russian football team’s loss at the World Cup managed to get 18,000 likes and 2,000 shares in very little time, all due to how close to home it struck for the community. A future for memes A while back, ironic memes were in style. Today, post-ironic memes are the thi…
13.12.2018
Microbial Fuel Cell, Space Station, and Electronic Guide: Finals of Quantoriada Competition
…construction and characteristics, and then use this knowledge during the final round. They will also present the prototypes they came up with by the end of the first round and share about their progress. As I have already mentioned, the main task of the final round is to come up with a working solution,” explains the competition's coordinator Ivan Riazanov. …
13.12.2018
BizCycle: Moving Towards Comfortable Biking Infrastructure on Russian-Finnish Border
…ists contributed with their suggestions on BizCycle’s development and provided the project’s initiators with other valuable feedback, while partners from South-Eastern Finland shared about their experience of designing biking itineraries and identified the areas for potential collaboration with other projects that are part of the cross-border program. Accordin…
12.12.2018
ITMO Students Score Second and Third in Robotex Competition
…opeykas, tenderly calling their cars “Swallow”. It sounds a bit weird, but that’s how things work here. If you treat your robot like a pile of metal, it will soon become one,” shares Artemiy Zenkin from the RED team. The team’s hopes for victory disappeared when they saw the performance of the TU Ilmenau team. “They didn’t participate last year, and we …
11.12.2018
SURF Stanford US-Russia Forum: Science Communication and Diplomacy
…selected, with almost 300 having participated in the program’s seven years of operation. A distinguishing feature of SURF is that its cohesive community of former participants shares its experience with the newcomers. Having passed the selection, the students get to travel around Russia and the USA and collaborate with various specialists from fields relevant to t…
10.12.2018
Head of the .NET-Development Department at JetBrains Sergey Kux: Don’t Build a Process Just for the Sake of It
…t writing in a team chat, and that’s ok; go for what suits you. One of the practices that is usually adopted by Agile adherents is a stand-up meeting, during which everyone shares their results with everyone else. But the reality is that stand-up can be boring and ineffective, which is a far cry from what it was meant to be. It can be boring because some team memb…
04.12.2018
Russian Programmers Prepare For ICPC-2019
…ity to be creative. And that’s hard to learn. It comes with experience and training, preferable five hours of it a day. It’s the only way to hone your skill and fight stress,” shares Boris Minaev. Results The absolute winner of the North Eurasian Finals was the team Moscow SU-3 from the Lomonosov Moscow State University; its members Mikhail Ipatov, Vladislav Ma…
04.12.2018
ITMO Scientist’s Thesis Named Best at the Australian National University
…h Center for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, the Australian National University, and in the US at the City University of New York, where he was guided by Pavel Belov, Yuri Kivshar, and Alexander Khanikaev respectively. “My thesis consists of two parts: the first one explored the research of new physical effects on the basis of metamaterials, while the secon…
30.11.2018